Keyhole
noun
A hole in a lock where you put the key.
He put the key into the keyhole to unlock the door.
Often appears as...
- look through the keyhole
- key in the keyhole
noun
A hole or opening that is the same shape as a key.
She peered through the keyhole-shaped window.
Often appears as...
- keyhole-shaped window
- keyhole cutout
noun
In surgery, it refers to small-incision or minimally invasive surgery.
She underwent a keyhole surgery to remove her appendix.
Often appears as...
- keyhole surgery
- keyhole procedure
noun
A hole in a lock where you put the key.
He put the key into the keyhole to unlock the door.
Often appears as...
- look through the keyhole
- key in the keyhole
noun
A hole or opening that is the same shape as a key.
She peered through the keyhole-shaped window.
Often appears as...
- keyhole-shaped window
- keyhole cutout
noun
In surgery, it refers to small-incision or minimally invasive surgery.
She underwent a keyhole surgery to remove her appendix.
Often appears as...
- keyhole surgery
- keyhole procedure
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Pro Tip 1/3Privacy Intrusion
Looking through a keyhole can imply invading someone's privacy or spying.
He felt guilty for peeping through the keyhole at the private gathering.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphor for Mystery
The keyhole can symbolize a gateway to something unknown or mysterious.
This diary is a keyhole to her innermost thoughts.
Pro Tip 3/3Slang Usage
In some contexts, 'keyhole' can be used as slang to mean an opportunity or chance.
He saw the job opening as a keyhole into the industry.
Pro Tip 1/3Privacy Intrusion
Looking through a keyhole can imply invading someone's privacy or spying.
He felt guilty for peeping through the keyhole at the private gathering.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphor for Mystery
The keyhole can symbolize a gateway to something unknown or mysterious.
This diary is a keyhole to her innermost thoughts.
Pro Tip 3/3Slang Usage
In some contexts, 'keyhole' can be used as slang to mean an opportunity or chance.
He saw the job opening as a keyhole into the industry.
Pro Tip 1/3Privacy Intrusion
Looking through a keyhole can imply invading someone's privacy or spying.
He felt guilty for peeping through the keyhole at the private gathering.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphor for Mystery
The keyhole can symbolize a gateway to something unknown or mysterious.
This diary is a keyhole to her innermost thoughts.
Pro Tip 3/3Slang Usage
In some contexts, 'keyhole' can be used as slang to mean an opportunity or chance.
He saw the job opening as a keyhole into the industry.
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Safari Live - Day 340 PIPE...
also some fecal component from the female and there's just this little keyhole split like that that the male is able to come and feed her so they are very successful in their breed and they can have between one to three chicks and if the season is a good one they'll successfully raise three chicks and we see many many hornbills around
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How augmented reality...
face their greatest challenges. If we go back several hundred years, an understanding of microbiology led to the development of antiseptic techniques, which played a big role in making sure patients were able to stay alive postsurgery. Fast-forward a few hundred years and we developed keyhole or arthroscopic surgery,
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How to defend Earth from...
because it woke us up to the dangers of these things this thing was discovered just a few years ago and could hit us a few years from now it won't but he gives us a chance to study these kinds of asteroids we didn't really necessarily understand these keyholes and now we do and it turns out that's really important
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Ash Beckham: We're all...
no matter what your walls are made of, because I guarantee you there are others peering through the keyholes of their closets looking for the next brave soul to bust a door open, so be that person and show the world that we are bigger than our closets and that a closet is no place for a person
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Phil Plait: How to...
and could hit us a few years from now. It won't, but it gives us a chance to study these kinds of asteroids. We didn't really necessarily understand these keyholes, and now we do, and it turns out that's really important, because how do you stop an asteroid like this? Well, let me ask
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Aerial imagery tech that...
into the earth and do some remarkable things can we bring up so last time we were here I brought you the preliminary version of this thing this is called earth viewer of a bunch of friends at keyhole created it and it's moved considerably forward and now it's
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The Prison Break PIPE Think...
But first they have to break out of jail. Hedge turns his hand into a lockpick and outlines the challenge ahead. Each lock in the prison works in the same unusual way. Inside the keyhole is a red dial that can be rotated to one of 100 positions
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Island of Waterfalls PIPE...
zodiac raft west alone the islands north coast past rocky cliff where Leandra films pounding surf past sea caves and keyholes until a long ribbon of water comes into view we put ashore on the cobble strewn beach then wait upstream
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You have no idea where...
or as a keyhole into the future of climate change. But I love it for a totally different reason. For me, it's a story about us, about how we see the world and about how that changes. So I was trained as a historian.
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Susan Lim: Transplant...
that might exponentially impact millions of patients worldwide. Now just about that time, the practice of surgery evolved from big to small, from wide open incisions to keyhole procedures,
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Safari Live - Day 340 PIPE...
also some fecal component from the female and there's just this little keyhole split like that that the male is able to come and feed her so they are very successful in their breed and they can have between one to three chicks and if the season is a good one they'll successfully raise three chicks and we see many many hornbills around
Video examples
How augmented reality...
face their greatest challenges. If we go back several hundred years, an understanding of microbiology led to the development of antiseptic techniques, which played a big role in making sure patients were able to stay alive postsurgery. Fast-forward a few hundred years and we developed keyhole or arthroscopic surgery,
Video examples
How to defend Earth from...
because it woke us up to the dangers of these things this thing was discovered just a few years ago and could hit us a few years from now it won't but he gives us a chance to study these kinds of asteroids we didn't really necessarily understand these keyholes and now we do and it turns out that's really important
Video examples
Ash Beckham: We're all...
no matter what your walls are made of, because I guarantee you there are others peering through the keyholes of their closets looking for the next brave soul to bust a door open, so be that person and show the world that we are bigger than our closets and that a closet is no place for a person
Video examples
Phil Plait: How to...
and could hit us a few years from now. It won't, but it gives us a chance to study these kinds of asteroids. We didn't really necessarily understand these keyholes, and now we do, and it turns out that's really important, because how do you stop an asteroid like this? Well, let me ask
Video examples
Aerial imagery tech that...
into the earth and do some remarkable things can we bring up so last time we were here I brought you the preliminary version of this thing this is called earth viewer of a bunch of friends at keyhole created it and it's moved considerably forward and now it's
Video examples
The Prison Break PIPE Think...
But first they have to break out of jail. Hedge turns his hand into a lockpick and outlines the challenge ahead. Each lock in the prison works in the same unusual way. Inside the keyhole is a red dial that can be rotated to one of 100 positions
Video examples
Island of Waterfalls PIPE...
zodiac raft west alone the islands north coast past rocky cliff where Leandra films pounding surf past sea caves and keyholes until a long ribbon of water comes into view we put ashore on the cobble strewn beach then wait upstream
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You have no idea where...
or as a keyhole into the future of climate change. But I love it for a totally different reason. For me, it's a story about us, about how we see the world and about how that changes. So I was trained as a historian.
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Susan Lim: Transplant...
that might exponentially impact millions of patients worldwide. Now just about that time, the practice of surgery evolved from big to small, from wide open incisions to keyhole procedures,
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Marc Randolph
American Businessman
When an opportunity comes knocking, you don't necessarily have to open your door. But you owe it to yourself to at least look through the keyhole.
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Jacques Yves Cousteau
French Explorer
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
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Colin Morgan
Irish Actor
Doors that presented themselves before, which I couldn't walk through, are at least there. And there are a few keyholes I can pick.
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Laurence Sterne
Irish Novelist
Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.
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Billy Sunday
American Clergyman
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
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Peter Ustinov
English Actor
By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
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Juno Temple
English Actress
I was the kind of girl who'd peep through her bedroom keyhole to check if her dolls were moving.
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Judy Garland
American Actress
I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.
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Arthur Koestler
Hungarian Novelist
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
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Mary McCarthy
American Author
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
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Marc Randolph
American Businessman
When an opportunity comes knocking, you don't necessarily have to open your door. But you owe it to yourself to at least look through the keyhole.
Quote examples
Jacques Yves Cousteau
French Explorer
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
Quote examples
Colin Morgan
Irish Actor
Doors that presented themselves before, which I couldn't walk through, are at least there. And there are a few keyholes I can pick.
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Laurence Sterne
Irish Novelist
Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.
Quote examples
Billy Sunday
American Clergyman
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
Quote examples
Peter Ustinov
English Actor
By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
Quote examples
Juno Temple
English Actress
I was the kind of girl who'd peep through her bedroom keyhole to check if her dolls were moving.
Quote examples
Judy Garland
American Actress
I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.
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Arthur Koestler
Hungarian Novelist
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
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Mary McCarthy
American Author
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
Example 1 of 10
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